Reddit reviews Mitosis: A Reckoners Story (The Reckoners)

I like books

1. Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan it's my favorite of the Wheel of Time books form which I got my current handle. But there's a lot of other books I really love like When the Hero Comes Home or The Caves of Steel by Asimov or The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce which I liked because it was so not my genre and yet it was utterly compelling.
   
   
2. I don't really have least favorite books. I'm good at judging them by their covers so to speak. I can tell you I hated Dredlocks, and I didn't enjoy The Boys of 58 but over all Scratch ALL of that Witch and Wizard is TERRIBLE. It's abhorrent. Not only does it struggle to make sense. The universe is barely coherent. I mean the characters are Whit and Whisteria (aka Whisty) which is bloody annoying to keep track of because they keep switching perspective every other chapter but not EXACTLY every other chapter. The terrible "faux books" like "Creature Plantation" and "1894" and stupid things like that. Completely unrelatable characters. I mean for crying out loud their names are "Allgood". I read that book thinking "Oh hey James Patterson is the guy who wrote "Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came A Spider" and I love those movies. This sounds interesting. And it failed on every. single. front.
   
   
3. Fav book adaption? Hard to say. Maybe Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It was what I've heard to be the best adaption of the series. I'd have to go through movies to find a better one off my head. But everything that happened in the book showed up in the film. They cut out very little. It was a fun movie, paced well. It was everything I wanted in a harry Potter film.
   
   
4. Least Favorite Adaption? Oh I know i have some of those.. can I say Green Lantern? or Batman Begins? Because I love DC but their LA films aren't doing it. Green Lantern was doomed from the moment they said the suit was going to be all CGI. I mean they had Ryan Freaking Reynolds. He was fantastic for Hal but they ruined it. Now I'll never get to see more of it because it's just dead. Batman Begins, where to begin on that. Well we start with his voice. It was stupid. You can't defend it. It was just stupid. And it literally ruins the film. Honestly I don't mind a realistic depiction of Batman, but WHY? Why are we doing this because once the Nolan films end you have to start over again. Because that world isn't a world where you can have a "Flash" and "Batman" you could barely fit in a "Catwoman" and without those you can't expand into a multi film universe like Marvel did. So now in spite of the money and fame we've gotten with the Batman Begins trilogy we have a Batman that's dead and over. You can't continue it with a new actor, you have to scrap it and start over and now everyone wants to compare it and argue over the actor all over again. Oh books.. I also have Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I love that book. It's a favorite of mine, and yet the movie didn't do it right. The movie was geared towards the battle. Instead it should have (like the book) been geared towards the school. The whole point about Ender's Game is that the story is about battle SCHOOL. It's about training for graduation so you can go fight. Doing all these pointless games that only Ender realizes is pointless because the threat of war is ever present. The SPOILER revealthatthefinalgameswereinfactnotreallygamesbutactuallycombatfromadistance /Spoiler is what changes the whole feel of the book. The movie did some good things, like showing us the commanders watching Ender but they pushed that too hard to the point where any idiot watching figured out what was going on.
   
   
5. Best book from something else? Can I say Knightfall? Knightfall was a comic series which introduced Bane. Bane came out of nowhere, Freed all the psychos from Arkham Asylum, when Batman was worn out recapturing them, he had to fight Bane and Bane won in the most brutal manner possible. He just broke his back. It was great. I started reading the novelization which elaborates on Bane's backstory making him out to be even Smarter and more methodically psychopathic than the comics. Also Total Recall by Piers Anthony which I didn't realize was made after the movie which was made from a short story. That's how good it was.
   
   
6. Least favorite book adaption? that's tough. Hardest uestion of the lot. i don't read books adapted from things often. I honestly doubt I'll be able to think of anything that would apply.
   
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7. When the Hero Comes Home
   
8. When the Villain Comes Home
   
9. When the Hero Comes Home 2
   
10. Mitosis
    
11. The First Confessor

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Uh, I really liked Steelheart. I also always recommend "Machine of Death" cause its a really good book. :)

thanks for the contest!